Henning Glawatz

Henning Glawatz (born December 9, 1949 in Hellendorf ) is a retired Brigadier General . D. of the army of the Bundeswehr .

Military career

Training and first uses

After graduating from high school in 1969, Glawatz joined the Bundeswehr as an officer candidate in Nagold . After training as a paratrooper officer and promotion to lieutenant , he was deployed from 1971 to 1976 as platoon leader with the paratrooper battalion 271 in Iserlohn and the anti- aircraft armor company 270 in Munster , and during this time promoted to first lieutenant . From 1976 to 1980 Captain Glawatz served as company commander of the 2nd  company of the Paratrooper Battalion 262 in Merzig .

Service as a staff officer

From 1980 to 1982 Glawatz completed the 23rd  general staff course at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg and was then promoted to major . From 1982 to 1984 he was then deployed in Hanover as Operations Staff Officer ( G3 ) at MAD Group II in Hanover. In 1984 he was transferred to Lippstadt , where he served as an operations staff officer of Airborne Brigade 27 under Günter Roth and Ernst Richstein until 1987 . In 1987 he attended a course at Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk , Virginia .

Back in Germany, he took over the post of staff officer (G1) of the 1st Airborne Division in Bruchsal for a year from 1987 under the command of Christoph-Adolf Fürus . From 1988 to 1990 Lieutenant Colonel Glawatz held a troop command with the Paratrooper Battalion 271 in Iserlohn and then returned to the Hamburg Leadership Academy in 1990, where he was employed as a lecturer in troop leadership and tutor of the general staff course until 1992.

Thereafter, Colonel Glawatz was again transferred to the 1st  Airborne Division in Bruchsal, where he served as Chief of Staff until 1994 under the command of Fritz Eckert . In 1994 he took part in a course at the NATO Defense College in Rome . After his return to the Federal Republic of Germany, Glawatz took up his old post again, but with the difference that the tasks of the 1st Airborne Division (1st LLDiv) meanwhile - from parts of the disbanded 4th Panzer Grenadier Division and the 1st Airborne Division - newly established command Airborne forces / 4. Division in Regensburg were taken over. Here he served from 1994 to 1996 under Bernd Albert as Chief of Staff. In December 1995 he took over command of Airborne Brigade 26 in Saarlouis from Hans-Heinrich Dieter.In December 1995 he also took over from Dieter the duties of commander of the 2nd German contingent United Nations Protection Force (GECONUNPROFOR) in Trogir / Croatia in the former Yugoslavia . After the Peace Implementation Forces (IFOR) had also taken command in December, Glawatz served until the spring of 1996 as chief of staff of the German contingent of IFOR under the command of Friedrich Riechmann . Back in Germany, he led the airborne brigade until 1999. In 1997, Glawatz went back to the foreign mission , this time as chief of staff and deputy national commander of the German contingent of the now SFOR in Rajlovac . During Operation Libelle, the Bundeswehr soldiers evacuated over 100 German embassy employees from conditions similar to civil war in Albania . This is where the Bundeswehr's first shots were fired during an assignment abroad.

Service in the rank of general

On April 1, 1999, Glawatz was appointed Brigadier General. With effect from January 1, 2000, he handed over command of Airborne Brigade 26 to Manfred Schlenker . Glawatz himself was transferred to the JHQ Rheindahlen and served there as Chief of Staff and senior German officer of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) under the command of British Lieutenant General Christopher Drewry and Richard Dannatt .

In 2004 he was transferred to Ulm , where he served as Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Staff of the II Corps under the command of Jan Oerding until 2005 .

In September 2005 Glawatz returned to Regensburg, where the Special Operations Division has been responsible for the Air Mobile Forces / 4. Division had taken over. Here he served in his last assignment until December 31, 2009 as deputy commander under Rainer Glatz , Hans-Lothar Domröse and Hans-Werner Fritz . He finally handed the post over to Volker Bescht and was retired.

Private

Glawatz is married.

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• Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry 2007/08
• Manual of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry 2009/10

1. ↑ Tirana '97: The first battle of the Bundeswehr  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Rheinische Post Online from March 14, 2007)  
2. ↑ Reconstruction of Büchold Castle has started. buechold-online.de, October 10, 2008, archived from the original on February 19, 2014 ; Retrieved August 28, 2010 . 

Web links

• Bundeswehr article on the adoption of Glawatz